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Shroomie

AI-powered news made fun and habit-forming Discussion | Link

Faby

Your virtual coworker with its own computer living in Slack Discussion | Link

Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working

Techie regrets not taking credit for getting it done with amazing speed

Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results

You’ll need a lot of detailed prompts to get solid output - and even then it may have errors and typos

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AI Marketing Doesn’t Fail Because of Tools. It Fails Because No One Owns the Coordination Layer

Companies are investing heavily in marketing AI tools, while the coordination layer that makes those tools useful often remains underdefined. Across multiple client engagements, a consistent pattern appears: AI extends...

DecisionBox for Databricks

Connect DecisionBox to your Databricks to validate findings Discussion | Link

Making a PCB The Old-Fashioned Way

Nearly all modern PCBs are designed with the help of EDA software, but not all of them. [ALTco] shows us the process of plotting out a board the old-fashioned way...

A Tool Is Not a Platform (And Your Team Knows the Difference)

Calling a collection of tools a platform creates expectations it cannot meet. A platform has a contract. A toolchain has documentation.

Can Blockchain Make Distributed AI Training Work?

A small experiment explores whether blockchain-style coordination can support distributed machine learning without a central aggregator.

Infrastructure as Vibe Is Coming for DevOps

Infrastructure as Vibe is the layer that sits above Infrastructure as Code. The interface is natural language, the tool infers what to provision from your code, and the platform actually...

How PostgreSQL Can Prevent Overlapping Reservations

Application-side check-then-insert booking conflict detection has a race window between the SELECT and the INSERT. PostgreSQL EXCLUDE constraints with tstzrange push the check into the schema, making double-bookings impossible regardless...

AI Is Not Here to Take Your Job. It's Here to Take the Parts of Your Job You Hate.

The "AI will replace jobs" narrative is wrong, and it's causing the wrong people to worry. Here's what the data actually shows, and what you

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox...

How To Change your MAC Address: A step by Step Guide

MAC addresses can quietly identify devices on public networks. Here’s what they are, why they matter, and how spoofing can help.

@useAfricaPay/core Earns a 50.49 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Unified, Type-Safe Payment SDK for Africa

@useAfricaPay/core is an open‑source, type‑safe payment SDK that gives developers a single React/TypeScript API for multiple African payment providers, cutting integration time and duplicated logic. It has passed 1,000+ npm...

The Next AI Infrastructure Problem Is Not Intelligence. It Is Continuity.

AI systems are becoming more powerful, but intelligence alone is not enough. As AI products retrain, migrate, scale, integrate, and act across workflows, they must preserve continuity across time. Continuity...

Patch Jenga and the Illusion of Security: When Patching Becomes the Risk

Security teams have turned vulnerability management into a game of “Patch Jenga,” stacking endless fixes onto already fragile systems. Patching isn’t going away, but the industry’s overreliance on it has...

AI in Ecosystem Design: Where It Helps and Where It Breaks

AI can help ecosystems scale by classifying signals, summarizing activity, extracting structured data, and flagging anomalies. But it breaks when teams use it for quality judgment, grant decisions, or governance....

We're Solving the Wrong Problem for LLMs and AI Overall

A review of context and memory issues in LLMs against the methods of AI startups to solve these in biological or biology-mimicking ways.